July 6, 2008

Senator Joe Lieberman has echoed a national talking point by promising that the new president will be welcomed by a terror attack in 2009, continuing a disturbing trend of talking heads anxiously relishing a catastrophic pretext to reinvigorate the Neo-Con agenda.

“Our enemies will test the new president early,” Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. “Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration.”

Lieberman’s comments follow last month’s Washington Times report concerning a warning from national intelligence spooks that, “Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power by planning an attack on America.”

Let us swiftly dismantle the naive pretense that a terror attack is a negative thing for a new president - both Clinton and Bush exploited terror in America to realize preconceived domestic and geopolitical agendas.

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was an inside job from start to finish - it did not come as a “surprise” to the U.S. government since they ran the entire operation, having cooked the bomb for the “Islamic terrorists” that they had groomed for the attack.

In 1993 the FBI planted their informant, Emad A. Salem, within a radical Arab group in New York led by Ramzi Yousef. Salem was ordered to encourage the group to carry out a bombing targeting the World Trade Center’s twin towers. Under the illusion that the project was a sting operation, Salem asked the FBI for harmless dummy explosives which he would use to assemble the bomb and then pass on to the group. At this point the FBI cut Salem out of the loop and provided the group with real explosives, leading to the attack on February 26 that killed six and injured over a thousand people. The FBI’s failure to prevent the bombing was reported on by the New York Times in October 1993.

The attack, coupled with the Oklahoma City bombing less than two years later, enabled Bill Clinton to whip up support for the passage of a plethora of unconstitutional legislation, including the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the Brady Bill, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and a $100 million dollar grant to Israel for “counter-terrorism” purposes.

By the time Clinton left office, the Patriot movement - which before the OKC bombing had grown in leaps and bounds, spurred on by the atrocities committed by the federal government at Waco - was effectively dead.

Few need reminding of George W. Bush’s agenda before he took office. The ideological framework that would shape his presidency - encapsulated by the goals of the Neo-Con Project For a New American Century - required a “new Pearl Harbor” to get things started, which is exactly what they received on September 11, 2001.

“One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade—if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency,” Bush told Herskowitz.

The pattern is clear - each time a new President takes office they have a mandate to act as a torch bearer for the same agenda - domestic repression and foreign invasion. A terror attack provides the perfect pretext to realize those goals.

Whether it be Barack Obama or John McCain, we can expect a new crisis to conveniently arrive shortly after they take office, enabling them to pursue the same tyrannical blueprint followed by their predecessors.

White House Affirms Lieberman’s Attack Warning

By: Rick Pedrazanewsmax.com

In response to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s warning Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the United States will likely face a terrorist attack in 2009, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino agreed Monday, saying, “I think Senator Lieberman, unfortunately, could be right.”

Perino says Lieberman’s warning that terrorists could test the new president with an attack next year might just hold true. The spokeswoman for the Bush Administration agrees with Lieberman’s assessment that extremists determined to attack the U.S. will likely exploit the situation of a newly elected president assuming office.

“The only reason I say that is because we know that there are people who are very dangerous who are trying to attack us every day," Perino says in an official White House press briefing transcript provided Monday and released through Associated Press.

Lieberman, the four-term independent Democrat senator from Connecticut, supports presidential candidate John McCain, R-Ariz., in the upcoming November election and feels McCain will be better prepared than presidential rival Barack Obama, D-Ill., to handle on early attack on U.S. soil.

“Our enemies will test the new president early [in the new administration],” Lieberman forewarns. “Remember, the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration, and 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration."

Lieberman says the United States is in desperate need of a commander-in-chief who will best be prepared to lead the nation immediately upon taking office and says McCain is that candidate because “he doesn’t need any training. He knows the world. He's been tested, and he's ready to protect the security of the American people.”

Lieberman reminds, “We’re in a war against Islamic extremists who attacked us on 9/11, and they’ve been trying to attack us in many ways since then.”

Perino, when asked about that statement, says Lieberman is correct in his assessment that there continues to be extremists determined to attack the U.S., according to a report from AHN.

"The reason I say it's unfortunate that Senator Lieberman could be right is that with all these terrorists plotting to kill innocent people — not just in America but elsewhere, amongst our allies, or even innocent Muslims like we've seen in Iraq and elsewhere — they only have to be right once,” Perino says.

“And we have to be right all the time. So he [Lieberman] could be right, but we're doing everything we can to prevent it."